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Stents are tiny expandable wire mesh tubes for arteries

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When an essential biological blood highway clogs up with cholesterol, surgeons do not usually scrape it clean. Instead, they snake a tiny collapsed metal cage up your thigh, inflate a microscopic balloon to brutally shove the gunk aside, and leave the cage behind forever.

Stents are tiny expandable wire mesh tubes for arteries
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